It’s officially summertime – and with the rising temperatures, comes an abundance of preventable hot car deaths.
But not if Bishop Curry V can help it.
10-year-old Bishop has invented his very own device capable of saving hundreds of children from heat stroke. The invention, which he calls Oasis, is a tiny box that straps onto a child’s car seat. When temperatures in the car become too high, Oasis starts blowing cool air on the child’s face. An antenna inside the box also notifies the parents and local emergency services about the possible danger.
Thanks to the $46,000 that Bishop raised on GoFundMe, the youth is currently applying to be granted a patent for Oasis.
“Bishop is a 5th grader who is fascinated with making things. From creating a home-made catapult and ping pong ball cannon, to thinking of ways to melt ice and snow on roads without using salt,” wrote Bishop’s dad, Bishop Curry IV.
According to the crowdfunding page, Bishop first got the idea for Oasis when a 6-year-old girl named Fern passed away after being locked in a hot car in Bishop’s hometown of McKinney, Texas.
“We live in Texas where hot car deaths are far too common,” added Curry Senior.
While it is unclear how Oasis will be distributed, the remaining funds raised by the campaign will go towards manufacturing and prototyping fees.
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English pop singer Adele is warming hearts after she took time out of her busy schedule to drop off some cake for the Grenfall Tower firefighters.
The musician stopped by to say “Hello” to the Chelsea Fire Station on Monday with cakes in hand as a thank you for all of their hard work during the 24-story building fire in North Kensington, London last week.
“Not everyday the wonderfully grounded and caring Adele pops into Chelsea Firestation for a cup of tea and a cuddle,” wrote firefighter Rick Petty.
“She just turned up at the station and knocked on the window and said she has some cakes for us,” said station manager Ben King. “So we opened the door to her and then she took her sunglasses off and said: ‘Hi, I’m Adele.’”
“She came in, came up to the mess and had a cup of tea with the watch and then she joined us for the minute’s silence,” added Kind. “We have had so much support from the local community and we cannot thank everyone enough.”
The Grammy award-winning artist also made headlines after she quietly visited and paid tribute to the Grenfall Tower victims in the late night aftermath of the event. Her good deeds only went viral after photos of Adele at the tower site were posted to Twitter by social media user Ryan Lee.
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The Indian police officer is being praised after he stopped a presidential convoy in traffic so an approaching ambulance could pass.
ML’s Nijalingappa was directing traffic in Bengaluru’s Trinity Circle on Saturday when President Pranab Mukherjee’s automotive convoy started approaching. The president was reportedly in town for the inauguration of the Metro’s Green Line.
The police sub-inspector was about to let the convoy pass when he spotted an ambulance attempting to make its way through traffic.
The cop then halted the convoy in favor of letting the ambulance pass.
Though the gesture may not seem like that big of a deal, the Indian Express emphasizes that Indian police officers are often pressured to give politicians and bureaucrats special treatment at the risk of their careers and livelihoods. One Twitter user said: “… in the Indian context, this is HUGE decision for a policeman to make… [and it] must be recognized and encouraged.”
The Commissioner of Police, Praveen Sood, responded to the Tweet, saying that the traffic cop’s brave gesture is indeed something to be hailed – and rewarded.
“I agree. It’s not simple as it appears. Situation in field is complicated than it appears. Consequences can be either way!” said Soon.
“The policeman who took such initiative to be rewarded. Well done!” he added.
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America’s first ultra-accessible waterpark has just opened its doors to the public on Saturday.
The $17 million San Antonio waterpark, Morgan’s Inspiration Island, has dozens of features that make it the most handicap-accessible park in the country.
The park, which is a nonprofit organization, offers special passes to kids who have trouble waiting in lines; the water temperature can be adjusted for guests who have sensory issues; the water is constantly filtered and reused for kids with immune issues (and for the environment); all of the rides are wheelchair accessible; and every visitor with disabilities is given free admission.
Children who have a tendency to wander are given waterproof wristbands with GPS so parents and staff can easily locate the youngsters in the park, if necessary.
In order to prevent overcrowding, admission to the park is also limited. Parents are encouraged to purchase tickets online in order to guarantee attendance.
The most impressive addition to the waterpark, however, are the waterproof wheelchairs available for rent – also totally free of charge.
The 80-pound wheelchairs, which were designed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh, is powered and charged by the air, rather than a battery. This way, users can wander through the splash pads and water cannons unfettered by their heavier electric counterparts.
Additionally, one third of the waterpark’s employees have disabilities, in order to encourage representation.
Inspiration Island is an extension of the $35 million next-door theme park Morgan’s Wonderland. The park was created in 2010 by Gordon Hartman, whose 23-year-old daughter with disabilities became the namesake of the facilities.
In order to create Inspiration Island, Morgan and Gordon consulted dozens of physical therapists, doctors, caregivers, and families with disabilities. Now that the park has opened, it can be accessed by the 54 million children diagnosed with disabilities nationwide.
“Morgan’s Inspiration Island will concentrate on inclusion, and inspire guests to do things previously thought not to be in their range of capabilities,” said Hartman. “Those without disabilities and those with, including individuals in wheelchairs, guests with hearing and visual impairments, and even guests on ventilators, will be able to play alongside each other and gain a greater appreciation of one another.”
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This rare albino dolphin was spotted during a whale watching tour, and scientists are delighted to find that it is healthy and in good physical form.
The 3-year-old mammal, which is believed to be the only albino Risso dolphin in the eastern Pacific, was first spotted in 2014, before being sighted again in September 2015. This most recent sighting in Monterey Bay, California is the most recent report of the dolphin’s presence.
The dolphin was seen swimming with its mother a few miles offshore by the Blue Ocean Whale Watch company two weeks ago.
“Albinism in the wild is incredibly rare, and I believe this is the only known albino Risso’s dolphin in the eastern Pacific,” Cummings told Live Science. “Albino animals may be more prone to skin problems because there’s no melanin to protect the skin from UV [ultraviolet] rays, and they can have poor eyesight and hearing. As far as we can tell, this juvenile appears healthy.”
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It can take all night for this mountain park’s search and rescue team to find missing hikers – but thanks to new drone technology, a recent search was over in a matter of hours.
The Douglas County Search and Rescue Team of Colorado were deployed on Thursday after two hikers and their dog found themselves lost in the woods of Devil’s Head mountain with their dog.
The distressed duo called 911 and requested help when they found that they had strayed too far from the trail.
The team began searching on foot around 4:15PM. By 6PM, the drone had made visual contact with the hikers. The team then met up with the hikers and guided them back down the mountain, resulting in a successful 4-hour search and rescue.
“50 years ago basically everything was done by a group lined up in a straight line and just plodding through a field,” Commander Bruce Fosdick told KDVR. “Now, scientifically we try to plot out a lot more where the subject is. We use a lot of different assets. Dogs, drones, helicopters. We try to do a lot more with a lot less people and try to get it done a lot quicker.”
However, the rescue crew says that drones are astoundingly cheaper than helicopters, which cost about $2,000 per hour.
And after the successful search on Thursday, it’s safe to say that drones will now be a much more vital part of the team maneuvering the 29 mile area of Devil’s Head mountain.
After getting married on his 20th birthday, an Arkansas man is still making his bride swoon 70 years later.
90-Year-old Paul Miller sang a romantic rendition of Bing Crosby‘s “Let Me Call You Sweetheart” at a ceremony where he and his wife renewed their vows and celebrated the anniversary with 60 family members.
“It was so sweet,” one granddaughter recalled. “Their love is definitely a true love.”
The couple shares love not only with their own family but with kids who need help. Over the years, they have invited into their home a number of parentless youth who have aged out of the U.S. foster care system.
Shekeb Neda threw his mother on his back and rushed down the steps in Grenfell Tower as fast as he could during the recent fire disaster to save her life.
The 24-year-old recent college graduate of Kingston University sprinted through choking black smoke down 24 flights from their home on the top floor to reach a safe place, where she then collapsed.
The housewife who has a muscle disease is currently recovering in the hospital, according to the Mirror.
“He is a hero,” a family friend, Fahim Muzhary, told the UK’s Sun newspaper. “In the chaos, all the screaming and shouting, he picked up his mother and carried her down from the very top floor.”
Shekeb, who earned a degree in mechanical engineering after moving with his parents to the UK from Afghanistan, likely lost his father in the blaze. (See family photo above)
Over the weekend, three generic father figures volunteered to drink beer and grill for a gang of guys in their twenties, providing the perfect Father’s Day barbecue experience.
The ringleader of the shenanigans, Dane Anderson, had posted a hilarious, yet earnest, ad on Craigslist looking for a surrogate grill-master for a party he was planning for dozens of his buddies.
Reportedly, more than 100 applicants were reviewed and the group chose three ideal candidates. All met the requirements of having a name no longer than five letters. In this case, Scott, Pete and Jim.
The ad, first posted in early June for the party on the 17th, also specified that the “father” should be ready to refer to all attendees as “Big Guy’, “Chief”, “Sport”, “Champ”—and talk about dad things, like lawnmowers, building your own deck, and Jimmy Buffet.
“The Boys,” as the Spokane, Washington youths call themselves, provided the meat and the beer, but also a touching way for one of the dads to mourn a loss.
Scott, one of the chosen ones, said his own father had just passed away on June 2, so to be a part of this event with The Boys made it extra meaningful for him.
Brian Pierce felt an instant connection with a particular baby in China when he saw her adoption photo.
“We opened her profile and saw that beautiful face looking back at us. We wanted to scoop her up right then and hold her, but she was on the other side of the world,” says Brian.
Even just looking at a photo, there was never a doubt that this little girl was the perfect match. She was born with a cleft lip and palate, just like Brian.
He vowed to make her life better, like his parents did for him. So once the baby, whom they named Hattie, became a little older he brought her in to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta—the same hospital where he had his surgeries when he was a boy.
“I knew what was in store for Hattie. I knew that I could help,” he wrote in a blog post for the hospital. “I couldn’t keep her from having to go through any of it, but I could be there for her.”
Brian knew that he could also help her through any sadness she might feel because she looked different than other children.
Even though he was born with disfigured legs, a boy named Blessing Fire always felt the fire in his soul to dance.
Told by his doctors he would never be able to walk like a “normal child”, he found his passion in breakdancing and now teaches his award-winning moves to students who flip and twirl their way to trophies.
“I was put in a wheel chair at a very young age,” Blessing told video journalist Tendai Msiyazviriyo
His parents were concerned that even walking would further damage his legs, because his right knee had a metal pin inserted to hold the leg together. Blessing figured that his limbs were already broken, and he didn’t want the deformity to lead to a broken spirit, so he snuck away from his parents’ home to hone his skills.
Overwhelmingly, for the 450 men who play NBA Basketball in the U.S., their success can be attributed to the family members who sacrificed to get them where they are today. But one of the league’s star players had a tough childhood, yet overcame the odds to become the family man he never had for a role model.
Two-time NBA All-Star Caron Butler grew up on the mean streets of Racine, Wisconsin. He didn’t have a father in his life, and was exposed to every illegal vice there was, and drawn in by the allure of it all.
It was a judge who cynically believed the youth to be nothing more than a menace to society who lit a fire inside him.
“That’s a straight-up insult… I wanted to prove the doubters wrong,” said the man who left prison behind for a 15-year career as an NBA player. “People make mistakes. I try to take the positive route as much as possible.”
He told his story in a moving video to the National Basketball Players Association for their #EverydayDad campaign. The campaign celebrates fatherhood and to seeks to provide inspiration for fans to celebrate their own relationships with their dads and their kids.
Butler said he grew up with a void in his life that made him vow to be the best father he could be: “Being a dad means everything, because this is what it’s all about: planting the right seeds in your kids and watching them grow.”
As much as he tried to steer his son J.C. away from professional basketball, he adapted to it no matter what. Now, his dad focuses on positive feedback for his athletic son, and is a loyal presence both on the court for J.C. and in the lives of his other children.
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Though it may have seemed like a strange request at the time, this teen was allowed to participate in his high school graduation ceremony thanks to the kindness of a stranger.
Leroy Solis Jr. was set to graduate from MacArthur High School in San Antonio, Texas on Wednesday when he was stopped by a school representative saying that he wouldn’t be allowed to cross the stage if he was wearing jeans.
Leroy had neglected to adopt the proper uniform because his father was on a fixed income and he couldn’t afford new pants. The teen was in luck, however, when he dashed outside and decided to test his faith in humanity, instead.
“The school principal told him he wasn’t crossing the stage and sent him home,” Leroy’s brother Rosemary wrote on Facebook. “He had 3 minutes to line up. My brother walked back to his car and came across a young man his height and size. My brother proceeded to explain that he needed slacks to walk the stage and without any hesitation this kind young man said YES.”
The strangers told Leroy that he could change pants in their truck. Before he started dashing back to the ceremony, the man and his son enthusiastically told him: “Go cross that stage!”
Rosemary and Leroy have since started searching for the strangers who obliged him and his strange request, so they can properly thank them for their helpfulness and understanding.
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This video of a teenager receiving a birthday gift from his late father is enough to turn any metalhead into mush.
16-year-old Johnny Crow has been grieving over his 49-year-old dad’s death since the heart attack struck in April. Johnny did not know until last week, however, that his father left behind something special that will help him remember the relationship through the music.
Johnny’s 20-year-old sister Chandler picked her brother up from school last Wednesday and took him to Port Huron Music Center in Michigan, the music store where he takes guitar lessons.
Chandler then handed Johnny a birthday card from their father wishing the teen a happy birthday, and expressing the hope that he would enjoy the gift.
The music store workers then revealed a guitar case containing a Dean Razorback guitar: the exact model that Johnny had always wanted.
Johnny’s dad had actually ordered the guitar for his son back in January – Chandler and the Port Huron Music Center staff had simply been keeping the guitar under wraps for a month before the big reveal.
“About a month ago I dropped Johnny off at his guitar lesson, and one of the amazing instructors told me there was something I should see. When she showed me I just dropped to my knees, I just couldn’t believe it,” wrote Chandler. “But I had to keep it a secret until his birthday. So this morning I woke up and picked up my brother from school and blindfolded him. Drove him to the music center and this is the outcome.”
While Johnny’s reaction to the gift is a tearjerker on its own, the kindness doesn’t stop there.
The Reddit community heard the story of Johnny’s late father and started asking how they could make donations towards the teen’s guitar lessons. Johnny’s music teacher came forward and explained that the music store had a Paypal account – anyone wanting to financially contribute to his lessons could submit a donation with the caption reading “Happy Birthday, Johnny”.
Over $16,000 has since been donated. The Crow family will be consulting a lawyer on how best to use the money for the teen’s livelihood.
The young musician was also gifted two tickets for his birthday to see Alice Cooper, and Metal star Nita Strauss contacted Johnny’s guitar teacher, Pete Kruse, and insisted on providing backstage passes for the family in their father’s honor.
“Hey guys, Nita from Alice Cooper here,” wrote Nita. “Just messaged [Pete Kruse] to let him know that I’ll take care of passes for John to come backstage and say hi to Alice and the band at our show. I watched this video a bunch of times earlier today before I even knew he was coming to a show, and sent it to a bunch of guitar player friends… such an amazing moment!! Can’t wait to meet John and the family!!”
When a man pulled his truck into a Buffalo, New York auto repair shop, the workers were stunned into silence.
Spray painted across the silver Chevy truck in large orange letters were racist slurs and hateful epithets. The owner of the vehicle, identified only as Mr. King, had brought his truck to the Collision Masters repair shop in Buffalo for a price estimate on how much it would cost to erase the graffiti.
But the founder of the shop was not about to let the man out the door with just an estimate for repairing the vandalism.
“Customer pulls into the shop today and I literally hear crickets when all the air tools and employees stopped and shook their head in disgust on what they saw,” says Collision Masters founder Frank Todaro. “I looked at the driver and told him that ‘you are not leaving until I fix this!’”
In what would have taken hours of work and attention, the team leapt into action, cleansing the car of spray paint in just 30 minutes. Additionally, Todaro refused to accept money from Mr. King.
“Literally my guys dropped everything and attacked this truck like a pit crew and got the job done,” says Todaro. “I told the owner of the vehicle [that] this one’s on me and I wanted him to know that Buffalonians will never stand for this!”
After seeing a segment on a local news station featuring their kindness, state Sen. Tim Kennedy bought lunch for the entire repair crew on Wednesday.
“As the day goes on, it’s been an amazing feeling,” Todaro told Buffalo News. “So many people have been calling, feeling bad for [Mr. King] and thanking us for what we did.”
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If you ever feel like complaining about the multitude of difficulties when dealing with your family, just think about the Geraldi clan and the calamities through which they’ve bravely persevered.
Over the course of the last four decades, Michael and Camille Geraldi have become the legal guardians of 88 special needs children and adults.
Ever since the couple first met in 1973 at the Miami Children’s Hospital, they knew that they were destined to care for kids. As Camille worked as a nurse, and Michael toiled as a pediatrician, they dedicated their careers to healing and watching over the young patients – some of whom had special needs and had been abandoned by their parents. Michael was renown for offering his services to low-income families free of charge, while Camille often spent late nights at the hospital reading to disabled children.
After they got married two years later, the lovebirds started adopting the disabled orphans from the hospital. The children were diagnosed with everything from autism to cerebral palsy, facial deformities to Down syndrome – whatever the difficulty, the Geraldis loved them all.
“I love these kids,” Camille told Good News Network. “Though it can be challenging, draining, exhausting work, when you have your faith you just keep going.”
By the time they had adopted 18 children – and gave birth to three of their own – they started the Possible Dream Foundation: a nonprofit to help finance their children’s futures, rehabilitation, education, work training, and treatment.
While Michael’s salaried income paid for most of their expenses, the family still needed assistance as their brood expanded in the 90s to include 31 youngsters. Their circumstances seemed even more dire after their Miami, Florida home was destroyed by Hurricane Andrew.
The Geraldis then moved to a farm in North Carolina where many of the children grew up to graduate from high school and became certified dog trainers.
The family suffered another disaster in 2011, however, when their farm was struck my lightning, causing a house fire that burned everything to the ground. But good fortune stepped in and they were offered a home in Georgia, which they made handicapped-accessible using the insurance money from their previous home.
Camille is now 68 years old – and even though she lost Michael to an aggressive cancer last year, she still has a mighty spirit for taking care of the children alongside a large team of volunteers.
How does she stay so motivated? Camille gives credit to divine inspiration.
“I think sometimes you’re just cut out to do it or you’re not” she says. “I do know that I’m doing God’s work—he plans the day and I just carry it out. He motivates me along the way.”
“I usually wear a mustard seed pinned to my shirt, and when I’m feeling drained and need a push, I touch it and he gives me the the energy and determination I need to make it through the hard times and the adversity.”
Even more striking than the years of intensive parenting and hospice care, is the fact that Camille had never taken time for a vacation until very recently.
She and Mike had planned to go on a cruise for their 40th wedding anniversary, taking their “first vacation ever,” but because of his diagnosis they had to cancel. This year she finally was able to relax on a seven-day trip.
Despite all the hardships, Camille continues to care for the Geraldi family with compassion, love, and unwavering selflessness.
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These innovative caps for prescription pill bottles could help curb opioid addiction and abuse amongst seniors and adolescents alike.
The TimerCap is a medication lid featuring a built-in timer that reads when the bottle was last opened. Every time the bottle is closed, the timer resets to when it is supposed to be opened next.
In the midst of an opioid epidemic, these lids could deter young adults from stealing their parents’ prescription drugs for abusive purposes; or, it could help seniors to remember when they last took their medication.
The lids can also be paired with Bluetooth technology to send email and text notifications to the owner telling them when it is time to take the medication, or if the bottle has been opened before the appropriate time.
According to the TimerCap website, their encouraging research shows the lids have increased proper medication habits by 33%.
Drugs store chains CVS, Rite Aid, and Walgreens have all partnered with TimerCap in order to improve distribution with the hopes that the product will deter drug abuse.
“My mom was addicted to opioids for as long as I remember,” Larry Twersky, the CEO of TimerCap, told FOX 11 News. “This is one of the biggest crises and I hope we have the ability to make simple decisions and simple choices that can affect the population dramatically.”
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These 92 pups were found living in filth, but they’ve been given forever homes as a result of their previous owners’ arrest.
The hoard of Yorkshire terriers were found living in unsanitary conditions at a home near San Diego, California. After Humane Society officials seized the dogs back in January, the couple responsible for the dogs were founding hoarding 78 more dogs at two different locations.
Thanks to their rescue, however, almost all the pets have been adopted by families into loving, healthy environments.
According to Inside Edition, the new Yorkie owners have started a Facebook group to coordinate and share in the collective healing of their new furry companions.
The guilty animals hoarders have since been charged with felonies, resulting in the inability to own pets for the next decade.
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These police officers went above and beyond the call of duty for a 91-year-old woman whose pocket was picked while grocery shopping in a supermarket.
Security footage of the grocery store shows the senior being subjected to a distraction theft: a robbery in which one shopper distracted the woman from her shopping cart while their accomplice slipped her wallet out of her bag.
When Officer Janelle Jumelles arrived at the Boynton Beach, Florida store, she immediately paid for the senior’s groceries.
Overcome with gratitude, the woman started crying and embraced the officer, thanking her for the kindness.
Jumelles then helped the woman cancel her credit cards and suggested the senior go home and get some rest.
Later that same day, the cop returned to the woman’s home with a $60 gift card to the supermarket to replace the food stamps that were stolen from her purse.
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Money may not be able to you happiness, but the public is rejoicing over the latest report stating that Americans gave $390 billion to charity in 2016 – a 4% increase from the $379.89 billion donated in 2015.
Detailed in the publication Giving USA 2017: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2016, this is only the sixth time in the last four decades that has reflected improvement across all nine sectors of philanthropy: religion; education; human services; giving to foundations; health; public-society benefit; arts, culture and humanities; international affairs; and environment and animals.
Amongst individuals, corporations, estate donations, and foundations, individual Americans were shown to improve the most by donating 4% more than the previous year. Corporations and foundations also showed improvement, while estate donations fell slightly.
“This report tells us that Americans remained generous in 2016, despite it being a year punctuated by economic and political uncertainty,” said Aggie Sweeney, chair of the Giving USA Foundation. “We saw growth in every major sector, indicating the resilience of philanthropy and diverse motivations of donors.”
“Individual giving continued its remarkable role in American philanthropy in a year that included a turbulent election season that reflected a globally resurgent populism,” said Amir Pasic, Ph.D., the Eugene R. Tempel Dean of the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy. “In this context, the absence of a dramatic change in giving is perhaps remarkable, but it also demonstrates the need for us to better understand the multitude of individual and collective decisions that comprise our record of national giving.”
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